i am, r u? Sort of admiring the new Indy Lite, that is. It's not a "new newspaper" at all, to be sure: just a bouncy, breezy mini-edition of the £1 Indy. But it shows ingenuity, imagination and unrelenting professionalism as Simon Kelner's small, toiling team (now usefully reinforced by Stefano Hatfield from the defunct Londoner freesheet) produces two very different cakes from the same basic mix. On the plus side, it's a good time-filler for a quick commute (as intended). On the 50/50 side, you would never buy it and the Indy at home or on the hoof: too much duplication. And on the sucked-thumb side, there's a fundamental distribution dilemma.

Is it, basically, a freesheet that happens to cost 20p – and that you must therefore queue and jostle to pay for, unlike the free Metro which just lies in rail station piles ready for the picking? Or is it a proper, permanently priced product that competes with other quality papers, has a heart and life of its own – and will one day knock spots off the Indy mothership? You pays very little money: take a few months to ponder your choice.